Saint Marina Church in Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgarian Cleric Fails To Sell Gold Rolex To Cover His Church’s Electricity Bill By RT -- (March 11, 2013) A high-ranked Bulgarian cleric, who wanted to sell his gold Rolex in order to pay the electricity bills of his penniless church, couldn’t find a buyer for the expensive watch in the EU’s weakest economy. Metropolitan Nikolay of the city of Plovdiv announced plans to part with his watch in February after his Saint Marina church received a 3,000-leva (around $2,000) power bill. “I’d rather go to heaven without a watch than to hell with one,” he told state BTA agency back then. But it seems the cleric would have to travel to the spirit world with the watch firmly on his wrist as the public tender for the Rolex failed to attract any bidders on Sunday due to the high asking price of 11,600 leva (around $7.700). Nikolay’s Rolex as we...